but how do I make intellij suggest `carList: List&...

# intellij

[chintanshah]

but how do I make intellij suggest carList: List<Car>, with java, it used to be trivial

[yole]

how do you expect this to work? how is IDEA supposed to know that you want to declare a list variable? in Java this is trivial because types go first and you've already entered the type

[christophsturm]

maybe he is talking about a rename refactoring? when I invoke rename on blah: List<Int> it suggests list as name, but ints would also be great and intList too

[Shawn]

@yole I’m a bit late to this party, and I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but consider what Idea suggests while you’re typing out, say, a parameter name

[Shawn]

If I type out

fun foo(car

idea does suggest that the type of that param should be Car

[Shawn]

if I make it to carL, then carList: List<E> is suggested. from the user’s POV, marrying the two together to suggest List<Car> doesn’t appear too far apart

[Shawn]

I realize this is far from “trivial” as OP may have accidentally implied, and I’m definitely not clamoring for JetBrains to make this happen - I’m just saying, I can see where the guy’s coming from here

[yole]

parameter name suggestions work based on names which already exist in your program. carList will be suggested if you already have a carList property, variable or parameter somewhere; the fact that it's suggested as List<E> looks like a bug to me. what we don't and won't do is suggest all possible suffixes (List, Map, Set, Producer, Consumer, you get the idea) after you've entered the name of a variable which matches a class name